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ADDRESS 

TO 

Department Encampment 
Grand Army of the Republic 



SARATOGA, JUNE 26-27, 1902 



By CHARLES A. ORR 

Department Gimmander 

and 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE THEREON 



ALBANY 

J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS 

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Annual Report of the Department Commander. 



At Rochester last year jou elected me Department Commander, 
and all through my term I have tried to show appreciation by 
serving my Comrades faithfully, and truly hope I have done so. 
In each and every instance I have had their interests at heart, 
and the welfare of this great Department. 

It has been a pleasant duty for nie, and there has been but 
little friction in the Posts. I firmly believe if every Comrade 
would stop to think and realize the true meaning of Fraternity, 
Charity and Loyalty, and recall the time between 'Gl and '65, 
when we shared each other's troubles and joys — yes, and helped 
to bear one another's burdens — there would be no friction what- 
ever, and a feeling of comradeship would prevail throughout this 
Department. 

Our Thirty-fifth National Encampment was held at Cleveland, 
Ohio. The people of that city have reason to feel proud of the 
feeling the Comrades have towards it; but the Encampment was 
brought to a very abrupt close by the saddest of news — news that 
touched the heart of every one of us — the critical condition of 
our beloved Comrade and President, NYilliaui McKinley, who had 
been shot on September 6, 1901, in the Temple of Music, Pan- 
American Exposition. Of this I need say but little, for we all 
followed those last sad hours of that noble man's life, and the his- 
tory of that terrible crime is known throughout the world. 

Saturday evening, September 14, the Department Commander 
tendered to President Roosevelt, through Comrades Sterrett, 
Kay and Ewell, the .services of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
The President wrote a note to Secretary Cortelyou, asking that 



the G. A.R.be given a place in line of cscoit. Arrangements were 
made accoidinglv, giving the Comrades of the order distin- 
guished recognition throughout the entire sad ceremonies, from 
the funeral services at the Milburn residence to the final inter- 
ment at Canton. 

Twelve Comrades were present at the services at the Milburn 
residence Sunday morniug, September liSth. The body escort 
from the City Uall iu Buffalo Monday morniug to the funeral 
train was composed of Comrades under command of the Depart- 
ment Commander. Comrades from nearly, if not all the Depart- 
ments, were present. In the first files to follow the hearse were 
Frank M. Sterrett, Adjutaut-Ceneral, Missouri; Joseph W. Kay, 
Past Department Commander, New York; O. H. Coulter, Past 
Department Commander, Kansas; Joseph E. Ewell, Judge Advo- 
cate, Department New York; P. H. Coney, member National Coun- 
cil, Kansas, and your Departmeut Commander. 

The next files were made up from the representatives of the 
various Posts of Buffalo and other Comrades. The funeral train 
was accompanied to Washington by a special detail consisting of 
Frank M. Sterrett, Adjutant-General; Alfred Lyth, Past Senior 
Vice-Commauder-iu-Chief; Joseph W. Kay, Past Commander, 
Department of New York; W. F. Billings, Commander Post 9, 
Buffalo, N. Y., and Department Commander Charles A. Orr. The 
evidence of mourning en route was a most touching tribute by a 
loyal people. At Washington, September 17th, Departmeut Com- 
mander Israel W. Stone, of the Department of the Potomac, had 
charge of the special escort, composed of Comrades. 

The Commander in-Chief, Grand Army of the Republic, Ell 
Torrance, attended the funeral obsequies of the late President 
at Washington, I). C. He also accompanied the funeral train to 
Canton, Ohio, with Comrades Frank M. Sterrett. Adjutant-Gen- 
eral; William H. Armstrong, National Council of Administration, 
Department of Indiana; Edgar Allen, National Council of Admin- 
istration, Department of Virginia; A. A. Taylor, National Council 
of Administration, Department of Ohio, and there represented the 
Grand Army of the Republic iu the final ceremonies. 



September 17th— thirty-ninth anniversary of Antietam— had 
been designated as " Grand Army Day ' at the Pan American, 
but on account of Comrade McKinley's death it was changed into 
a memorial service, under the auspices of the Department of New 
York G. A. R. Comrades from all over the country were present. 
Addresses were made by Rev. Ezra Tinker, Chaplain, Department 
of New York; Hon. W. I. Buchanan, Director- General Pan- 
American Exposition; Capt. Joseph E. Efwell, Judge- Advocate, 
Department of New York; Major-General Daniel E. Sickles, U. 
S. A., retired; General Leo Rassieur, Past Commander-in-Chief, 
G. A. R.; General Isaac S. Catlin, U. S. A., retired, and other 
Comrades. 

A suitable memorial was adopted, which was beautifully 
engrossed and framed and sent to Mrs. McKinley. A photographic 
reproduction of this is given in the Grand Army Memorial pub- 
lished by the McKinley Memorial Publishing Company, of Buffalo. 

A more lasting memorial is to be erected at Canton, Ohio, in 
honor of our departed President and Comrade, and the Grand 
Army of the Republic throughout the country were asked to con- 
tribute. The Department of New York's contribution will 
amount, I believe, to about |3,000, and I want to thank the 
Comrades for their generosity in this matter. It is a very 
gratifying result, and I appreciate it. 

OUR FLAG. 

I believe the time has come when every school in the State is 
flying the flag we love, and great credit is due the Hon. 
Charles R. Skinner, Superintendent of Public Instruction, for 
this result. He sent out a circular to the schools throughout 
the State in reference to this matter, and for doing so the De- 
partment of New York has again occasion to thank him for 
another evidence of his loyalty to it. 

GOVERNOR ODELL. 
The thanks of the Comrades of this Department are due 
Governor Odell for signing the bill entitled "An act to amend 



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the Civil Servicp Law in relation to veterans," also to Comrade 
Senator Ellsworth, who introduced the bill; and to Col. Geo. W. 
Dunn, Speaker Nixon, Assemblyman, Comrades C. H. Cotton, 
Jotham Allds, Otto Kelsev, and many others, who assisted in 
passing the bill, which gives all veterans who have passed a 
Civil Service examination and are employt-d by the State or by 
any of the cities, counties, towns or villages thereof, additional 
security in holding their positions. It is well to state that the 
law as it now stands is practically what was urged by one of my 
predecessors in office. Comrade Kay. I also want to call atten- 
tion to the bill drafted by Edwin II. Kiselcy. of Bacon Post 53, 
Utica, introduced by Mr. McQuade, of Oneida County, in the 
Assembly, and passed, providing for the re-interment of veterans 
buried in Potter's Field, the towns, villages and cities to bear 
the expense. 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 

President Theodore Roosevelt also gives encouragement to the 
veterans in his annual message, in many of his public utterances, 
and in his Executi%'e Order, in the followings words: "The at- 
tention of the Departments is hereby called to the provisions of 
the laws giving preference to veterans in appointment and re- 
tention. The President desires that whenever the needs of the 
service will justify it, and the laws will permit, preference shall 
be given alike in appointment and retention to honorably dis- 
charged veterans of the Civil War, who ;ire fit and qualified to 
perform the duties of the places which they seek or are filling." 

The Dci)artment Commander has had occasion to call the 
President's attention to this Executive order in the case of a 
Comrade employed in the Census Bureau, who was to be 
di'ojjped. Th(> President at once referred the matter to the Di- 
rector of the Census, and his answer was very satisfactory, the 
Comrade being retained in the service. And there are many such 
instances of watchful care on the part of the President concern- 
ing our Comrades. 



MEMORIAL DAY. 

As each year goes by, the number of dead Comrades to honor 
aud graves to decorate greatly increases, and fewer arc left to 
do it. For this reason, every Comrade who is able to do so, 
should take an active part in Memorial Day services. 

I would rejoice greatly if the day could be made a Memorial 
Day in reality, instead of being regarded by some people as a 
holiday for all sorts of games and amusements. 

MEMBERSHIP. 
During the past year the Department has had the following 
gains and losses: 

Number of Posts July 1, 1901 591 

Number of Posts January 1, 1902 ^^^ 

Gain of Posts _^ ^ 

Number of members July 1, 1901 30,143 

Number of members January 1, 1902 30,381 

Gain of members 2*^° 

New charters 

Charters surrendered * 

Number of deaths during year 1.051 



In 1871, the number of members was 5,879. Twenty-two years 
later, in 1893, our membership was 41,435, and from 1893 to 
January 1, 1902, this Department has lost 11,054 members. 

At present I think there are about 100,000 veterans in this De- 
partment, and many of them at some time or other have be- 
louged to the Grand Army. I want to urge upon you the im- 
portance of having these boys reinstated. And it is just as 
important to get those veterans who have never joined any post 
to now enlist with us. 



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MONUMENT BILL. 

A bill for a McKinley monument in Buffalo was introduced by 
Assemblyman Bradley and Senator Hill, of Buffalo, and passed, 
ai)prnjniiitiuf;- flOO.OOO for tbe same. Much credit is due Messrs. 
Bradley, Hill and Butler lof the Buffalo Evening News) for this 
appropriation. The veterans feel very grateful to them and to 
Governor Odell for signing the bill. 

VISITS TO POSTS. 

I have attended quite a number of reunions in different parts 
of the State, but have been unable to visit every county by 
reason of the condition of my health. 

The Department Commander and staff has been received with 
the greatest courtesy by the Comrades and citizens generally 
wherever he has been, showing that the Grand Army of the Re- 
public has the love and respect of all good citizens. 

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME. 

As a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Soldiers' 
and Sailors' Home at Bath, your Department Commander has 
attended its meetings during the past. year, and is therefore 
familiar with its workings. 

The Home is recognized throughout the country as the model 
Soldiers' Home, and the Comrades of this Department, and in- 
deed all citizens of our State, ought to feel proud of it. 

At the last meeting of the Board. May 8, 1902, contracts were 
let for the construction of a new convalescence barracks at a 
cost of about 160,000, and general repairs not exceeding |5,000. 

Col. Andrew Davidson is the Commandant of the Home, and 
is giving entire satisfaction, not only to our Comrade inmates, 
but he has the entire confidence of the Board of Trustees as well. 
On May 31st there were 1,.566 veterans in the Home and 500 
absent on leave. 

OXFORD HOME. 

I regret exceedingly that I have been unable to visit the Wo- 
man's Relief Corps Home at Oxford, but hope to be able to do 



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60 during the summer. I bear, however, of its excellent work 
and management under the superintendeney of Mrs. Ellen M. 
Putnam. 

Governor Odell has visited both Homes and is greatly pleased 
with what he saw. 

MOUNT McGregor. 

As long as the American nation lives, interest will never cease 
in the cottage at the mountain-top where our gallant leader — 
Grant— passed the last days of his glorious life. Each year 
several hundred people visit it, notwithstanding the fact that it 
involves a long drive, but they are well repaid, for it is kept in 
splendid condition by its custodian, our Comrade, 0. P. Clarke. 

WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS AND LADIES OF THE G. A. R. 

It is now, more than ever, that we need the help of these noble 
women, for a great many of the Comrades are well on in years; 
some of them without families and almost helpless. These 
women are always ready to do what only women can in cheer- 
ing and brightening the lives of our unfortunate Comrades, and 
I feel too much honor cannot be given them for the work they 
are doing in this department. 

SONS OF VETERANS. 
I am glad to see that the Sons of Veterans take a deep interest 
in their Order, for through them the coming generation will 
know of what their forefathers did and what they endured for 
the sake of their country. I hope to see that Order increase 
each year and their influence be far-reaching. 

DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS. 

This noble Order does much towards making the lives of our 
sick Comrades and their families as pleasant as possible, and we 
will always feel deeply grateful to them for their good work. 

LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 
The members of this committee were former Judge-Advocate 
L. E. Griffith, Past Department Commander Stephen P. Corliss, 



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and former Assistant Adjutant-General W. W. Bennett. These 
Comrades were selected because of their experience. Their 
efforts have been untiring and results very gratifying. 

The Amendment of the Civil Service Law was really the most 
important measure that has passed in several years, especially 
that portion of it which takes in all cities, villages and towns. 

Judge Oriftith informs me that special ])raise should be given 
Comrade IJt-uuett for his ceaseless work on the committee. 

Thanks should also be extended to Comrades Allan C. Bake- 
well, M. J. Cummings and George H. Jackson, who attended the 
hearing before the Governor on the civil service amendment; 
Past Dejiartment Commander Edward J. Atkinson presenting 
the oral argument, and Comrade Joseph \V. Kay one in writing 
in favor of the bill, in a very satisfactory manner. 



IN MEMORIAM. 

During the year this Department has lost Past Department 
Commander Ira M. Hedges, whose death was announced in 
General Orders. 

The Department will also keenly feel the loss of Col. Joseph 
Porter of Rome, a member of the Council of Administration. 

It als'o becomes my sad duty to announce the death of Assist- 
ant Quartermaster-General and Past Department Commander 
L. Coe Young, which occurred on the loth inst., at his home at 
Binghamton, after a long and painful illness. 

His indomitable energy, his charming personality, his intense 
patriotic nature, his sterling integrity and his inspiring and 
eloquent words, endeared him in an extraordinary degree to 
his Comrades and to all who knew him. 

The funeral services were held on the 18th, under the auspices 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and many Comrades from 
all parts of the State were present to pay their last respects 
to his memory and to extend words of sympathy and affection 
to the bereaved familv. 



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GRAND ARMY JOURNAL. 
I want to appeal to every Comrade who can afford it, to sub- 
scribe to this paper, edited by Mise Helen I. Parker. It will not 
only interest them, but will make them better Grand Army 
Comrades and more regular in their attendance at Post meet- 
ings. 



CONCLUSION. 

I want to most heartily thank the Council of Administration 
and my entire staff, who have so ably assisted me during the 
year, and to them, for their interest and hard work, is due a 
great deal of credit for whatever successes I have attained as 
Department Commander. And in conclusion I want to thank 
each and every Comrade for their friendship and fraternal feel- 
ings, and so long as I live it will be my prayer that the closing 
years of your lives will be filled with peace and happiness. 

CHARLES A. ORR, 
Department Commander. 



Comrade A. G. Mills, Post 140.— I move that the report be 
received and referred to the Special Committee on the Com- 
mander's Report, when appointed. I also move that the reports 
of the other Department oflScers and of the Council of Adminie- 
tration be received and referred without reading (except as such 
reading may hereafter be called for by this Encampment) to 
the respective committees on such reports, when appointed. 

This motion was adopted and the report was so referred. 

The Committee on Commander's Report, to whom this report 
was referre^^^^equently, through Past Department Comman- 
der Kay, made the following request: 

Comrade Kay. — I wish to state that the report of the Depart- 
ment Commander is in the hands of the committee; many of the 
committee are not present, and we think that the report requires 
more than a passing notice, and we ask leave to have our report 



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upon the Commander's address sent to the proper offieials when 
it is prepared, 60 that our work in its preparation may be more 
properly performed, and in order that thi' matter may be put 
in better form for the working of the Department. 

This permission was granted; and the report of the Committee 
on address of Department Commander will be forwarded to the 
Assistant Adjutant-Ceuerai when ready. 



To the Thirti/shth A)i)uml Encampment, Department of New York, 
Q-raiul Army of the Republic: 

Comrades. — Your Committee on the Report of Department 
Commander Charles A. Orr, submit the following: 

We congratulate the Comrades on the concise manner in 
which the Department Commander has given to the Encamp- 
ment an account of his stewardship. We congratulate him on 
his excellent administration of Department affairs. Duty well 
and truly performed is never without some reward. He has 
well earned our fraternal thanks. 

We earnestly appiove and ask the attention of Comrades to 
the views by him expressed relative to a more general obser- 
vance in our daily lives of the principles of Fraternity, Charity 
and Loyalty. These are more than the keystone in the arch of 
our faith, for they are the very foundation stones upon which 
our Order is built. Memories of other days of trial and 
danger, of " troubles and joys," to which allusion is made, should 
make Comrades more tender and true to each other, now. 

The reference to the death of our Comrade, President William 
McKinley, is thoughtfully expressed. The information given 
as to the part taken in the ceremonies attendant upon the re- 
moval of his remains from Hufl'alo to Washington, and thence 
to the place of their final interment near his home at Canton, 
by the Comrades representing the National Encampment of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, especially those of this Depart- 
ment, should be enlarged >ipon and the matter placed in the 
archives of our Order at Albany, to be there preserved as a part 



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of its history. The amount of f3,000 reported as the sum con- 
tributed by the Comrades and Posts of this Department towards 
a monument to be erected to the memory of our distinguished 
Comrade at Canton, Ohio, is a fairly liberal one, but probably 
not as large as it would have been if the opinion of the Com- 
rades as to the place of its locality was more united. 

Your committee desires to emphasize and join in the expressed 
belief of the Department Commander that the flag of our coun- 
try is flying upon or about every schoolhouse in thisi State. 
This should be so. Suitable recognition of the efforts that have 
been made by Hon. Charles K. Skinner, Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, to enforce the law of the State upon this subject, 
is merited. We would urge that every means possible be exer- 
cised to create and maintain in the hearts and minds of teachers 
and scholars admiration for the flag, as also for the principles 
it represents, and love for the country whose glory it declares 
to all the world. This accomplished, the fact of " Old Glory " 
flying upon or about every schoolhouse will soon be regarded 
as a loving duty, not a thing to be enforced by an appeal to 
law. 

The consideration shown to war veterans by Theodore Roose. 
velt, President of the United States, and Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., 
Governor of this State, as stated in the report, is worthy of 
these distinguished officials. And as well all others who en- 
force existing laws and champion new ones, for their benefit. 
This is as it should be. 

One act of the President was a tribute by a younger soldier 
of " the late war " to his older Comrades of " the great war " 
of deep significance. In language terse and simple, evolved out 
of his own inner consciousness, an order issued at the request 
of the Committee on Legislation for Veterans in the Public Ser- 
vice of the Grand Army of the Republic, acting for the National 
Encampment, it breathes a loyalty to the cause of the saviors 
of the Union, worthy of emulation and praise. Your committee 
feel that its text should be strongly emphasized and made a part 
of this report, and it therefore follows: 



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Executive Order. 

The attention of the Departments is hereby called to the 
provisions of the laws giving jneference to veterans in appoint- 
ment and retention. 

The President desires that wlieiiever the needs of the service 
will justify it and the laws will permit, preference shall be 
given alike in appointment and retention to honorably dis- 
charged veterans of the Civil War who are fit and qualified to 
perform the duties of the places which they seek oi' are filling. 

(Signed) Theodore Roosevdlt. 

White House. January 17, 1902. 

While the laws of the Nation in the interest of the soldier and 
sailor of the Civil War, in the matter of preference in the publio 
service, are not so numerous or liberal as in this State, this 
Executive Order means, that such as they are, these must now 
receive due consideration. So mote it be. 

The bill passed at the last session of our Legislature and made 
effective by the signature of the Governor, entitled ''An act to 
amend the Civil Service Law in relation to veterans," and known 
as chapter 270, Laws of New York, 1902, which gives all veterans 
who have passed a civil service examination and are employed by 
the State, or any of the counties, cities, towns or villages thereof, 
additional advantages concerning preference in employment and 
security in holding their iwsitione, was far-reaching. This evi- 
dences gratitude that is tangible and helpful. It also conforms to 
the requirements of the State Constitution, the organic law, on 
that subject. 

It now becomes the duty of the Department Officers to insist 
that the provisions of all existing laws in that behalf, National, 
State or municipal, shall be fairly construed and executed. 

We heartily approve the recommendations and suggestions con- 
tained in the report upon the various other subjects referred to, 
especially that relative to our membership. Every worthy soldier, 
sailor or marine, who honorably wore the blue in '' the days 
which tried men's souls," should now be in the (Jrand Army of 
the Republic, to remain there while he lives. And earnest 
efforts to make this a fact should be exerted " along the whole 



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line."' We strongly roiumend this matter to the attention of 
the incoming Department Commander and Conncil of Adminis- 
tration. 

The reference to the work of the Legislative Committee; to the 
Soldiers and Sailors" Home at Bath ; to the Woman"s Belief Corps 
Home at Oxford; to the Grand Army Journal, edited by Miss 
Helen I. Parker, and " In Memoriam "' of Comrades '-gone before," 
and the kindly words said of the several kindred organizations in 
whose prosperity we are interested— every one of them— are hear- 
tily approved and endorsed. 

We commend the report as a whole to all Comrades. It con- 
tains many common-sense views, the observance of which will 
advance the good name and standing of our Order, particularly 
in this Department. 

The better to express recognition and "honor give where 
honor's due,'" resolutions embodying some of the recommendations 
of Department Commander Orr are submitted for the considera 
tion of and action by the Encampment. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Department of New York, 
Grand Army of the Republic, in annual session assembled at 
Saratoga Springs, June 27-28, 1902, rightfully due, are hereby 
tendered as follows: 

To Theodore Roosevelt, a son of New York, its former 
Governor, now President of the United States. His executive 
order, dated January 17, 1902. requiring due consideration 
regarding the laws affecting the employment and retention of 
veterans in the public service of the national government by pub- 
lic officers; the reference in his message to the fifty-seventh Con- 
gress, as also in many public speeches, concerning the services of 
the men— living and dead— of the great war, are well-timed. 
They attest his loyalty to the cause of those now living who by 
patriotic devotion on land and sea for the country in the days 
which tried men's souls, demonstrated that they did " stay put." 
Such tributes from a distinguished younger soldier of the '' late 
war " to his older Comrades of '■ the great war," are examples 
worthy of emulation and praise from all citizens of a redeemed 
Nation, and of soldiers and sailors everywhere. They may well 
inspire others, " Go thou and do likewise." 



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To Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.. Governor of the Empire State: A 
most flttiiiR successor as a friend of tlic veteran to Hons. David B. 
Hill, Roswell P. Flower and Theodore Roosevelt, his predecessors 
in that high ofiSce, all of whom we delight to honor. His signa- 
ture to every measure passed b.v the Legislature, having for its 
object recognition and honor to war veterans, citizens and resi- 
dentsof the State, especiallyso in the matter of jireference in pub- 
lic employment, the care of those in Soldiers' Homes, and that 
none who die shall remain in paujjer graves, demonstrates hia 
affection and loyalty to the cause of the '' boys in blue." By acts, 
not in idle words, is the promise of the Constitution of 1894, and 
other laws embodying the wishes of a grateful people, by him thus 
carried out. That every reasonable doubt has been solved by him 
in favor of proper recognition of those who in the sixties bared 
their breasts to the storm of shot and shell to the end that the 
Nation might survive, is made strongly manifest in chapter 270, 
Laws of New York, 1902. And his signature to the bill which 
provides a suitable monument to onr Comrade, the martyr Presi- 
dent, William McKinley. at Buffalo, meets the earnest approval of 
the people of onr State. 

To Charles R. Skinner, Superintendent of Public Instruction of 
the State, for the many patriotic acts by which he has endeared 
himself to the Comrades of this Department. That " Old Glory '' 
should be revered and honored and the patriotism it inspires 
become an heirloom in the hearts and homes of all Americans, 
through the medium of the teachers and scholars in the public 
schools, has been his constant aim. With the flag we love upon 
or about every schoolhouse. the safety of the Republic and its free 
institutions, is assured. 

To the Senate and As-sembly of the State, for legislation in the 
interest of veterans — both the living and the dead — by which the 
peo]>le throtigh their representatives in Legislature assembled, 
show a sincere gratitude by doing that which is helpful. 
Especially to Senator and Comrade T. E. Ellsworth. President pro 
teni. of the Senate, and to Assemblyman and Comrade Charles H. 
Cotton, who recogni/^e that " fraternity means something;'' as also 
to Hon. S. Fred. Nixon, S7)eaker of the Assembly. Hons. Otto Kel- 
sey and Jotham B. .\llds. for generous aid. are we under many 
obligations: while to others named or referred to in Commander 
Orr's report, for many kindly offices, particularly Hon. Henry W. 
Hill and Hon. John H. Bradley and Mr. Butler of the " Buffalo 
Evening News." in the matter of the McKinley monument at Buf- 
falo, w(> feel most gratefnl. Be it also 



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Resolyed, That the Report of the Department Commander 
be approved and adopted, and that a copy of the same, together 
with a copy of the report of this committee, with the reso- 
lutions, it being also approved and adopted as a whole, shall 
be sent, duly authenticated by the incoming Department Com- 
mander and Assistant Adjutant-General, to all those herein and 
therein named. 



Respectfully submitted. 



JOS. W. KAY, P. D. C, 
STEPHEN P. CORLKSS, P. D. C, 
JAMES TANNER, P. D. C, 
N. M. CURTIS, P. D. C, 
HARRISON CLARK, P. D. C. 
M. J. CUMMINGS, C. of A., 

Committee. 



" EXTBACT FKOil JOUENAL." 




Department Commander. 



OFFICIAIi, 



Assistant Adjutant-General. 



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